Two encounters with academia, decades apart, reveal the peculiar machinery through which institutions reproduce authority, exclusion and their own necessity. A personal account of education, alienation and the questionable meaning of progress.
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The Search for Meaning
The search for a foundational logic and operating principle of existence leads through philosophy, mathematics and probability to unexpected insight: the unifying property is its own absence.
Consciousness, free will and the philosophical consequences of asking the wrong question.
How do distinguishable things arise and persist when everything constituting them is changing? An introduction to the relational mathematics of Applied Field Logic.
If mathematical structures arise through relational transformation, their topology, algebra and conditions of intelligibility must themselves be part of the dynamics they describe.
How strategic incompetence reproduces itself through relational dynamics, distributes costs across society and the planet, and constrains future change.
Natural philosophy, harmonic structure and the cybernetics of social complexity.
The distinction between a system and its surroundings arises through the relationships that constitute both.
What makes a system possible, what sustains it, and how might understanding those relationships help us repair a damaged world?
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What Is Political Identity?
Why do political movements become trapped in the conflicts that hold them together, even when those conflicts threaten to destroy them?
How institutions become vulnerable to exploitation through their own rules, incentives and dependencies, and how political, commercial and technological competition can accelerate systemic decline.
A practical introduction to Field Logic: a relational framework for exploring complex systems, generating new possibilities and navigating change. Think of it as an ontological skeleton key.
